Re: URL-encoding noew mandatory with ldapi access ?

Michael Ströder michael@stroeder.com writes:

Guillaume Rousse wrote:

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By setting up an heimdal KDC with an ldap backend, I found a strange issue: URI-encoding '/' character seems to be mandatory with openldap 2.4 clients (at least 2.4.9) now:

Why do you consider this to be strange?

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[root@stalingrad rousse]# ldapsearch -H ldapi:///var/run/ldap/ldapi DNS SRV: Could not turn DN="var/run/ldap/ldapi" into a domain -> NOK

ldapi:/// translates to an empty host name (here path name) which triggers a DNS SRV lookup for _ldap._tcp.domain.

No, ldapi connects to a named pipe. Slashes (/) are not part of ldapurl but are special characters acording to rfc2396 and have to be escaped by a percent character (%) and are presented by their hex value.

-Dieter